Mechanic Constructs Drivable 'Upside Down Truck'

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Rick Sullivan with his upside down truck in Clinton, Illinois. A man has built an incredible upside down truck that looks like a flipped-over vehicle. Rick Sullivan spent six months and $6,000 building the topsy-turvy truck from the parts of two separate vehicles.The road-legal car is created from a 1991 Ford Ranger pickup truck with a 1995 F-150 pickup truck body placed over the top - upside down.

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00:00Oh my gosh! What the heck?

00:16No, your screen hasn't been turned upside down.

00:19This bizarre truck is built to look like it's been flipped.

00:22Mechanic Rick Sullivan spent six months building the unusual vehicle

00:30in his breakdown garage in Clinton, Illinois.

00:33People are amazed. I mean, it's one of those things that when you first see it,

00:38it's hard to recognize what it is. But when you take the second look,

00:42then they pull me over and want to look at it closer.

00:45Rick, who runs the garage with his wife Kathy, got the design idea

00:49when he was called to rescue an overturned Ford Ranger.

00:52As we were approaching the scene, there was a pickup truck

00:56that was rolled over on its top in about ten inches of snow

01:00with all four wheels sticking up in the air.

01:02I said, hey, I'll bet you I can recreate that.

01:05Inspired by the concept, Rick set about putting his idea into reality.

01:10We collected parts from a Ford F-150.

01:14Then on the drivetrain, it is a 91 Ford Ranger,

01:19and we tore the body off of it and transformed the F-150 upside down

01:26onto the 91 Ford Ranger.

01:29The truck cost me $6,000 to build, and it took me six months to complete.

01:33The truck is a big hit with Rick's nephews,

01:36who love being taken out in the attention-grabbing vehicle.

01:39Hi, Brody. Hi, Brock. You ready to go for a ride?

01:42Yeah. Want to go to Dairy Queen?

01:44Sure. Sure. All right.

01:45The best thing about it is it's because it's upside down, probably.

01:49Yeah.

01:50And there's only one of it in the world.

01:52Our friends are very jealous that we get a ride in these cool cars.

01:57And the upside-down creation turns heads in town.

02:00Yeah.

02:01All I thought was if the car had been tipped over,

02:03that's what it's supposed to represent, I think.

02:06What it looks like is somebody took the frame of a car

02:10and put it on there, but, you know,

02:12your first reaction is that something's wrong.

02:15I would like to have one myself,

02:17and simply because of the uniqueness in it.

02:20The amount of pictures from cell phones,

02:22I would say is somewhere around a thousand pictures a day.

02:25Luckily for Rick, his wife supports his crazy building projects,

02:29even if he keeps her in the dark about what he's building.

02:32When I brought home the upside-down truck, my wife had no idea.

02:37I was at work, and he called and said,

02:40you need to come outside.

02:42So I went outside.

02:43It was amazing, the reaction to it.

02:46And the people were stopping in the street,

02:49and it was a lot of fun.

02:51Yes, I would say Rick is car crazy,

02:54and his mind is always thinking about what the next project's going to be.

02:58The truck may have turned his world upside-down,

03:01but Rick is already planning the next exciting build.

03:04I will keep the truck.

03:06I will never sell the truck.

03:07I do have a car building project for the future.

03:10Just keep watching the streets, because it's coming.

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